Quotes
Quotes about Man
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."
There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."
How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!
By many a happy accident.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river
For that some melancholic, distracted man
Hath drown'd himself in 't.
A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that's never read,--
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
The best of men
That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
